IL TABARRO and GIANNI SCHICCHI . The former is simply staged against a large monolithic dock that looms over the singers – perhaps hammering home a sense of their insignificance and futility. Gianni Schicchi is cluttered, bustling and lived in. It is looks and feels elaborate. Overall, an excellent short season from ETO at the Everyman – as usual.
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★★★★★ Pericles, by William Shakespeare (and George Wilkins) is a play about a man on a journey. He finds love and new kingdoms, loses them and finally is reunited with them again. A lot of the action takes place at sea and Nick Ormerod’s set indeed conjures the sea in its very blueness . . . Beg, borrow or steal a ticket in Oxford this week before it continues its tour back to France.
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★★★★☆ Any movement in a piece such as this cannot be there purely for the sake of looking good, it must be justified within the story being told . . . to a simple, rock ‘n’ roll song manages to create a good balance of narrative and beauty. Pieces such as this are a real joy to experience, and I would certainly recommend it to anyone interested in dance.
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★★★★☆ In 1700 London money is one thing, social status another. Mrs Rich, widow of a merchant banker has a massive fortune and a gilt coach with dappled white horses. What she can’t buy is the approval of the self-selected upper circle of the upper class. And that is all she craves . . .
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★★★★☆ Becca and Louise thrash their way through this performance with energy and verve. They have brought their personal stories, attitudes and opinions to the stage and mixed them with music, movement, images and sounds to create an expressive and yet intimate performance.
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★★★★☆ Tennessee Williams’ play concerns those subterranean currents of sex and class, which however Americans might protest to the contrary, runs through American society as much as British. Where D.H.Lawrence might find an accommodation between the two, Williams gives us conquest.
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